1 Samuel 15:22

The Lord Rejects Saul

22 So Samuel said:
x "Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the LORD?
Behold, y to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.

  1. Cross References
    1 Samuel 15:15
    And Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
  2. Cross References
    Psalms 50:8
    I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices Or yo...
    Psalms 50:9
    I will not take a bull from your house, Nor goa...
    Psalms 51:16
    For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I woul...
    Psalms 51:17
    The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A br...
    Proverbs 21:3
    To do righteousness and justice Is more accepta...
    Isaiah 1:11 - 17
    To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrif...
    Jeremiah 7:22
    For I did not speak to your fathers, or command...
    Jeremiah 7:23
    "But this is what I commanded them, saying, 'Ob...
    Micah 6:6 - 8
    With what shall I come before the LORD, And bow...
    Hebrews 10:4 - 10
    For it is not possible that the blood of bulls ...
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